Compare: "We come with the dust and we go with the wind." Woody Guthrie, Pastures of Plenty.
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Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Lead Belly too
An' to all the good people that traveled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind
— Bob Dylan
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Lead Belly too
An' to all the good people that traveled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind" in the context of "Compare: "We come with the dust and we go with the wind." Woody Guthrie, Pastures of Plenty." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Bob Dylan" (Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Song to Woody)
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About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
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